Mather

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Mather has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Mather, 2006

1 in 791,000

Mather over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mather: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mather means

Mather is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mather is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Mather between 1916 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1928; its best national rank was #3,987 in 1928.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Mather?

Mather had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006: 1 in 791,000; 5 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only: 1 in 411,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 548,442 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mather sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mather. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mathers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mather was born before 1928 — so the typical Mather is around 97 today.

Median birth year: 1928; About 97 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 23.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Mather rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1928 (6)
Years since peak: 97; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,987; 1928

Spellings of Mather

Mather is not the most common spelling — Matthew is, with 78.6% against Mather's <0.01%.

Matthew78.6%1,654,075
Mateo6.0%126,693
Asher5.3%111,227
Mathew3.7%77,538
Luther3.2%66,986
Matteo1.6%33,483
Nathen0.29%6,146
Arther0.24%4,993

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mather is used

Across 1910–2025, Mather was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 968,148 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mather has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mather by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,987; 1928
Peak year: 1928; 6 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 2006
All-time count: 21
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Mather

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mather

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Edward Paul Charline Ardis Germaine Darline Richard Leatrice

For a brother

Frances Jules Bud Rolland Normand Laverne Jewel Carrol

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